Car mover



0. WESTLING.

CAR MOVER.

APPHCATION FILED JUNE 19, 1919.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

INVENTOR- 01.0F Wssnme.

61L011 wEsTLLNG, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

' can MovER.

Application filed June 19,1919. Seri'aINo. 305,308.

To all whom it may 00mm.- Be it known that I, OLOF WESTLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and 'State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Movers; and I do hereby-declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will'enable' others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved car mover of a type wherein a lever is employed for action on a car wheel to move the car slowly from place to place.

.Car movers of this type are used in numerous places, such as around mills, factories, and the like, where it'is frequently 7 necessary to move a car on the track from one place to another.

mover comprises, a fulcrum bracket and lever pivoted thereto. The fulcrum bracket is adapted to slide on the upper flange of a rail and to bite or grip the same, in the car moving action.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views. 7 Referring to thedrawings: Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing my improved car mover applied to a rail to move a car, one of the wheels of the car being shown;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, some parts being broken away;-

Fig. 3 is a vertical axial section of the metallic end or cap member of the operating jected fulcrum lug 8, and a forwardly projected rail en aging extension 7 At its sides, the base% 9 and 10, the latter of which is formed with an inturned lock flange 11. The lock flange 11 and guide flange 9 are so spaced, that the;

bracket can be applied to the upper flange of the rail by a sort of angular lateral rocking movement. When this bracket is'thus Specification of Letters Patent.

grip itself on the flange of the rail.

The improved car has depending guide flange s matte A r.

I applied, the lock flange 11 will underlie one of the upper flanges'ofithe rail so that the bracket, when rocked rearward, will lock or lever or pinch bar is made-up of a cast socket l2 and along wooden handle bar 13. The socket 12, rearward of its frontend is provided with depending lugs 14:, which by a They pin 15 are pivotally connected to the lug 8 Y j of the fulcrum bracket 7. It is important to note that the pivot 15 is rearwardof the lock flange '11, so that in the carmoving action,

downward pressure on the lever will cause the fulcrum brackets to tilt slightly rearward until the so-called lock flange 11, tightly grips the rail flange and thereby prevents slipping of the said fulcrum bracket on the'rail. a

When the device is applied as shown in Fig. 1 and the end of handle bar 13is presseddownward, the short front end of the socket will press against the wheel and cause the wheel to rotate forward, thereby ward on the rail so that the lever may again be engaged with the wheel; and under this forward sliding movement of the fulcrum bracket the forwardly projecting flange 7? rides on the rail and prevents the fulcrum bracket from rocking forward, and hence prevents the lock flange 11 from gripping V the railflange.

This device, in actual practice, has been found highly eflicient for the purposes had in view.

What I claim is: 1. 'A car mover comprising a bracket hav-' ing a base portion provided with .a flat surface adapted to engage throughout its entire length with the top surface of the rail, an upwardly'and rearwardly incllned lug rising from said base portion and having a pivot opening therein disposed rearwardly of said base portion, a flange extending vertically downward from said base portion on jitlie side of the rail having a' project on adapted to extend underthe rail head, a

lever having a depending lug pivoted to said lug having a portion extending forwardly ing a base portion provided with El. fiat surface adapted to engage throughout its length with the top surface of the rail, 2. lug extending upwardly and rearwardly from said base portion, and a flange extending verti- Cally downward from said base portion having a projection adapted to engage under the head of the rail, a lever pivoted to 

